The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-04

rather tn An make progress; because
yor are IN the creed proteclug, instead
OF the truth hupting business. This
is Gods way Of revealing to Us today
God Is lot asleep, neither Is rave-
lation closed. The world still moves
on, and God is managing 1t. My dear
old man be not afraid OF science and
nature.
"Ah psturel II is all in nature.
Every phsycical manifestation, every
spiritual current 10 fixed within her
houpdless realm. The trouble is we
have never discovered the lsws.
Every fiber Of man is play ed upon
He must In return play upon nature.
All progress ia simply taking sdvan.
tsge Of natures laws, an assimilation
of her resources, an appropriation of
her riches 10 his denigns. This world
has been governed, doctored, scared,
and taught TOO much. Man has been
driven off too far from nature. The
beautiful 10 too frequently strapgled
in our learned veIbslism. The grand
eel teacher Is he who Glands aside and
lets nature teach, he who brings us
face to face with nature, and whose
words, II he speak ct all, are like clear
est glass, unaeon and unheeded in his
unlsbored revelations.
"Nature ia a truth ever irrepressible,
ever throbbipg like the sad and rest
lees sea. From the ehbings OF the
mighty waters there come out treas.
ures upon the land, snd from the
deep throes Of nature are evolved
grand ideas In the form OF men. These
entertain and satisfy the world for a
time, but finally, at the lappings OF
high tide Of progress, they 20 back
again to sea and chaos. Blu, science,
the true revealer CT nature, 10 ever
with M.
"Mahommed came, IL. gone, and
there lives Of his system only such
revelations and truths ss belong to
every grand life; bat science is here
blooming still.
THE mad wheels of time crash ON
and science has made the trailing vine
to creep and crawl over the walls OF
the sacred temples OF India, wherein
Brsbms once supIemsly reigned.
Science has forever hushed aud stilled
the voice Of Memnon, has caused the
white bosom OF Venus to heave with
love no more. and Fixed her form
fsultlets and dead In stone. Science
has driven from the banks OF the Nile
the echoings OF the voice Of Isis wan.
dering, wailing, weeping for her lost
god Osiris, and with probing micro.
scopic eye Is delvins down into the
very heart OF nature, and midst fixed
eternal laws 10 disclosing tie ore
Osiris Of all the gods. Science has
destroyed the great pantheon OF TIE
world and made many systems 10
sleep In the mysteries OF language
long sinc3 dead and lost. All this II
has do e, and the end Ia no, yet.
0iin has vanished, ard with him all
the old Morse system, save the central
truth, around which II clustered and
cluDR; but science Is busv at work
preserving this fragment Of truth tina,
It may live and shiDe forever, ard, as
ever, is condgning the rubbish to that
great cemetery called the past.
Science has slwsys been on elimi'
major Of rubbish aud q preseTver Of
truth. An, who can soy today In any
thing what ~ rubbish gnd what IL
tIutu2 What will live, what will die :
Science, Rs H. a great circle, is running
the world sr ind, and with sn electric
Il ssh ia setting ffe to the cL "A Of all
n atoms. Science is disJolvipg tho par
tition walls between all things aud
fystems, that there may ring Gu, as
one voice GcroAs the mystic deeps oil
nature the gilded, gliitering truth
Science IL the central figure arcuud
which the pure and true delight e
rally. Al, science, thou art almost I
goo; a.. destroyer q the whip, the
lash, the dungeon key, aud the sr, a
iibeIaiOr Of the minds # men. thou
er. the one bright speck ir
the ilimitable chaos. Thou sr
mans guiding star midst al
.hi6 co .iusion. NJ dear old man, b.
not afraid Of scienCe; che 10 but the
mirror Of nature and God. Play hei
siri1gs and let her clear notice iini
oct, stke Der weird keys and e, heI
symphories run. ir che will give you
music Of which MEirt ror WsgneI
ever dreamed. B. noi sireid 10 zap
the boom II nstur5 and drink 81 h I
nectar etrgam, deep, catiablr, and In
spring. Be- no li. I'D TO % low IN TIE
iO1tsta.s 4 p1Is 'ciegte; your Ion.
he'd yilws Inhy melt away your creed
may esipaie upon ,hs prEsinn
winds. but you will T. all thinR en-
cut carr ruth, perfection, and the
res God"
Dr.. Or ford was illowrd by NJ
Edse, sho, on behalf of thu dirColors
welcomed the students In aahoh I'D
dr,ss q eucourag ment and advice.
TIE i7culty Il tho college for the
ensuing rm Ia az follows:
Els me, NJ ID, professor OF prin
ciplfs and pr-ciice u medicine.
A. q. Sine. air NJ ID, prof esoT o
opihalmology, BIOLOGY aud laryng
olngy.
Z. Miles willoti, MD, professor o
clinical medicine, pnysical diagnosis
and disea'es OF tie chest.
W. b. R'gerr, MD, dean a faculty
J professor Of principles ard practice o
su,g5ry, and clinical surgery sn'
anslomy,
X. b Maury, MD, professor O
| gyr eology.
, Alexander EHklne, MD, proiesso
: OF obstetrics and diseases a children.
, IT,. Crohord, NJ. D., professor O
physiology.
. B. q. HenBing, NJ. D., professor o
! materia msdica, therapeutics and dif
! eaets Il he rfc,um.
A. NJ. West, NJ. ID, professor Q
chemistry, toIicology, pharmacy an
hygiene.
. 3. A. Rogers, NJ. D., demonstrate
D OF anatomy.
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